🥛👉Please enjoy the photos the Museum received from C. David Pomeroy Jr. and a gentleman he met that found, and owns, an original Milk Bottle from the Metropolitan Milk Company! William Payson Pomeroy, his great grandfather, had made this bottle for his Milk business in Galveston in the late 1800’s. C. David Pomeroy Jr. is an attorney, and historian, and his book titled, “Pasadena, The Early Years” is the tool we use at the museum regarding Pasadena History. Enjoy his article below:
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C. David Pomeroy Jr. writes:
It is easy to exaggerate a story to make others interested in it. Just a slight embellishment here and there. As a recipient of many family stories, it is exciting when you realize some of your family’s wonderful stories are more than just an interesting and exciting tales. I was told that my great grandfather, Edward Payson Pomeroy had a dairy and introduced the first glass milk bottles to Texas. As a small child that sounded exciting; he was part of History! My grandfather, John Edward Pomeroy told me no one was interested in history, it was only memories. But at the suggestion of my wife, Cait, I began to research history. My grandfather witnessed the first airplane flight in Texas. He rode his horse over to a prairie at South Houston and here was a man flying through the air. However, it would be 50 years later before he actually flew through the air. And a couple of months later he took his mother and his girlfriend (later wife) to the San Jacinto battleground and shook the hands of the last two survivors of that great battle that won Texas its independence from Mexico and eventually statehood in the United States. On his deathbed I held his hand, thinking of my connection to history.
A couple of years ago Brandon DeWolf, bottle digger/ collector from Houston contacted me. He was digging for antique glass in Galveston and found a quart milk bottle which was embossed on the front, “Metropolitan Milk Company, E. P. Pomeroy, Manager.” This was tangible proof that the family stories might be true. My research confirmed, my great grandfather had those bottles made in 1894 and by a long shot, it was the first glass milk bottle in Texas. He started a dairy in Brenham, moved to Galveston where he had lived previously and then to Pasadena. By the time the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 blew him to Pasadena, there were others selling milk in air tight glass milk bottles. The trend had started. Recently I travelled to Houston from my home in Asheville, North Carolina and held the bottle he found. My great grandparents also held that bottle, 130 years ago.
As Paul Harvey would say, “and the rest of the story” is yet to be told. I will apply for a Texas Historical Marker for that historical first and then a new exhibit will be set up at the Pasadena Heritage Park to share the story with the public. In reality we all are a part of history; some make it and some witness it. It is this past that we build our future upon
